Julian Gewirtz

Julian Baird Gewirtz is Senior Fellow for China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a fellow of the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program and a lecturer in history at Columbia University. He is the author of "Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China." He completed his doctorate in history in 2018 at the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. His research is published in the Journal of Asian Studies, Past & Present, The American Scholar, the China Leadership Monitor, and Foreign Affairs. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, he has also written on Asia for publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, The Guardian, the Financial Times, Harper’s, Caijing, Caixin, and Foreign Policy.

From 2015 to 2016, he was on leave from Oxford and served in the Obama Administration, most recently as special advisor for international affairs to the Deputy Secretary of Energy. He has been an Academy Scholar at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, a lecturer in history at Harvard University, a Fellow in History and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, a Research Fellow at Alphabet, and a China fellow at the Wilson Center. In 2019, he co-edited an issue of the magazine Logic on China and technology.

His poems have been published by AGNI, Boston Review, The Nation, The New Republic, PEN America, Ploughshares, and The Yale Review, and have received recognition from the Academy of American Poets and Best American Poetry. A sample of his work is here. His poetry criticism and nonfiction essays have been published by The Economist, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Poetry Foundation, and the Washington Post.